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Based on the real-life story of Gladys Spencer-Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, Gable\u2019s second novel takes the reader from Virginia to a small town in England and then to Paris. It moves back and forth between 1973 and 2001. Family secrets are revealed and the characters experience emotional growth through mystery and romance rekindled. Past and modern day collide. A great novel about family. If you enjoy reading Kate Morton, you will enjoy this book.<\/p>\n
Annie is recently out of college and newly engaged. She doesn\u2019t know anything about her mother\u2019s past or anything about her father either. Her mother Laurel is a recently retired lawyer. They\u2019re traveling to England together where Laurel is trying to sell some property she inherited. Before leaving Virginia, Annie notices a book in her mother\u2019s office and borrows it to read on the trip to England. In Oxfordshire, while staying at the Banbury Inn, Annie meets the Earl of Winton, a retired gentleman who tells her stories about the history of the area. As Annie reads the book she discovers it\u2019s about Mrs. Spencer, who owned the Grange located not far from where they\u2019re staying. Is Mrs. Spencer\u00a0 Gladys Spencer-Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough? What about the house and the book is she related or connected to the missing Duchess?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first seed of I\u2019ll See You in Paris <\/em>was planted while researching my debut novel,\u201d says Gable. \u201cI knew the reader must meet Gladys. Besides the 1970s setting, the novel reflects on her glory days and also includes a modern-day storyline. Weaving three time periods together was a challenge. As described in my novel, the Grange had an outbuilding near the edge of its property. The building\u2019s actual contents provided an unexpected callback to A Paris Apartment<\/em>. With I\u2019ll See You in Paris<\/em>, the truth lined up with fiction in so many perfect and surprising ways.\u201d<\/p>\n Gable says research is the best part of being a writer. \u201cI love hunting for facts and stories and a sense of atmosphere through methods such as the internet, interviews, out-of-print books, personal collections in libraries, old magazines, and, of course, traveling. I\u2019ll even watch television. Much of I\u2019ll See You in Paris <\/em>takes place in England in the 1970s. I saw every episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show <\/em>and Fawlty Towers<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Gable is currently writing her third novel, Book of Summer, <\/em>to launch in May 2017. As with her first two novels, it features multiple time periods. It takes place on Nantucket and is based on the real-life erosion affecting the island, a home that\u2019s been in a family for 99 years is in danger of tumbling over the bluff.<\/p>\n Gable lives a few blocks from the beach in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California, near San Diego. \u201cThe wife of Cardiff\u2019s founder was from Wales, hence the name,\u201d says Gable. \u201cMany of the streets in our neighborhood were derived from and inspired by counties or cities in England…Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge, Warwick, Somerset, Norfolk, to name a few.\u201d<\/p>\n Gable was born in La Jolla, California, and grew up in Del Mar. She went to school in Virginia and lived in Washington, D.C. for many years before returning to California.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019ll See You in Paris <\/em>by Michelle Gable.Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; 1st edition (February 9, 2016). Language: English ISBN: 9781250070630 $25.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Exclusive interview with author Michelle Gable and a review of her novel about a girl seeking details on her past the merges with the missing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-book-corner"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19322,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.british-weekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}